Can someone enlighten me as to how Stephen Hocking does everything he does (writes books) in spite of the fact that his ALS has rendered him unable to speak or write? I’m interested to know how he communicates and any other interesting information about him.
Stephen Hocking? This guy?
http://www.camden.gov.uk/camdentemplates/wards/showCouncillor.cfm?person=56
No, surely you mean Stephen Hawking. You can find out everything you want to know at:
This site has a lot of good info: http://www.mchawking.com/
This guy should team up with The Laziest Men on Mars (the All Your Base guys) and jam.
I can’t remember who distributed it, but the documentary “A Brief History of Time” was made by channel 4 in the UK a few years ago and makes compelling viewing. It has interview with the scientists who attended university with him prior to the diagnoses of motor neurone disease as well as with his family. Get your local video store to check their catalogue. It was aired here on TV not long ago, which indicates it’s still available somewhere.
The movie “A Brief History of Time” was made by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line”, “Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control”, “Mr. Death”) and should be available in the U.S. at your local video store or online for purchase. Excellent film.
His wife’s autobiography A Dance to the music of stars (not sure of that) is a fascinating read as well.
Not quite as enchanted with Stephen as the rest of the world 
Amen to that Primaflora…I still maintain, that if he wasn’t in a wheel chair, we would all be saying “Stephen WHO?”
Sigene,
I saw an interview with Hawking and he also feels that is why he is famous. In his own words “people like the idea of the crippled genius”. That may be true, but he is also really damn smart. I’d be happy to have half his brains.
A friend of mine is at Oxford in the cosmology Dept. He was at a seminar where Hawking attended. My friend had his backpack too far in the isle and Hawking’s wheelchair got stuck on it.
On that note, I have a friend who, with his nose in a book, nearly collided with Hawking on a sidewalk in Harvard. Apparently the orderly pushing him along gave him something a dirty look.
Everyone has their claim to fame, I suppose…